Diego Maradona is set to stay as Argentina coach despite their loss to Germany in the World Cup quarter-finals, amid reports Friday the Argentine Federation would offer him the chance to stay on for the next tournament in neighbouring Brazil in 2014.
Maradona was a surprise choice to lead the team when he took over in autumn 2008, having had little coaching experience. The team struggled through the qualifiers and he tried out more than 100 players. But until the Germans proved too strong for his men, Maradona's Argentinians had generally impressed by winning all their opening phase matches and also dispatching Mexico in the round of last 16. On Wednesday, a Federation spokesman said that Maradona - who has not been seen in public since his return from South Africa - would be asked to stay on.
There have since been reports in the media that Federation president Julio Grondona plans to meet with Maradona, who led Argentina to victory at the 1986 World Cup, next week to discuss terms. A Federation spokesman said that meeting would have "an open agenda without any strings attached."
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